News

1/17/2020
The start of the spring 2020 semester brings the reopening of the university’s earliest academic building, Coburn Hall, as well as a new home for the Centers for Learning and Academic Support Services and progress on several other Facilities Management projects. 

1/15/2020
Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland has won a $420,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study how police, firefighters, doctors and others make critical decisions in emergencies – and whether they can learn to make better ones.

1/15/2020
Sgt. Mike Soucy, who recently received the statewide Sean Collier Award for Innovations in Community Oriented Policing, was among several UMass Lowell Police Department officers recognized at a breakfast celebrating the successful strides the department has made over the past decade.

1/15/2020
From exploring the solar system and searching for habitable planets around nearby stars to zapping the Martian surface with a laser, our faculty and student researchers are working to gain a better understanding of the cosmic neighborhood in which we live.

1/2/2020
Honors students are assigned to explore the city of Lowell, from its past as America’s first planned industrial city to its current identity as a multicultural arts hub, in the First-year Seminar in Honors. 

1/10/2020
Under layers and layers of beige paint, UMass Lowell’s Coburn Hall hid a colorful mural of 1930s Lowell for more than three decades.

12/18/2019
Dracut residents Karen and Meaghan O’Brien spend Saturdays once a month volunteering at the Dracut Food Pantry. Meaghan, a junior studying business administration at UMass Lowell, first became involved with the pantry about two years ago after taking a Business 101 course at the university with Kevin Willett, chairman of the organization’s board.

11/21/2019
The work done in UMass Lowell's Toxics Use Reduction Institute's labs is taking on a renewed urgency in recent weeks after two chemical incidents in the Boston area.

11/18/2019
Knowing more about how and when flooding will occur helps us manage our watersheds for the benefit of people and fish.

11/9/2019
In 1890, there were fewer than 100 Greeks living in the City of Lowell, but just 35 years later, Lowell was home to the third-largest Greek population in America — trailing only New York City and Chicago, according to Wael Kamal, assistant dean of UMass Lowell’s College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.